Now, says Bultmann, out of the void
of nothingness comes the Word of God spoken through Christ, telling us that we are forgiven for our sin if we acknowledge our condition and accept the message.
I thought that the apprehension
of nothingness came from out of time and circumstance, a lightning bolt of truth that had nothing to do with the day before, the house I lived in, my family, and my age.
Not exact matches
How much do they pay the people who
come up with these silly pronouncements or did they just hire a bunch
of interns for the job and told them to be sure to say the politically motivated
nothingness that this conclusion really is?
Without a model
of quantum gravity, it is IMPOSSIBLE to describe the initial state
of the universe, or even be sure if it really was a singularity, let alone «
coming into existence from
nothingness» (not that we even have an example
of «
nothingness» to compare to.
The Great Sea
of Nothingness does not
come about with perilless underpinning whereupon the common atheist concerns are afforded.
God looks onto what seems like a dark canvas
of nothingness and imagines a beautiful life — a tree bearing all kinds
of good fruit that nourishes those who
come to eat
of it.
Which is to say that the path which the individual life must take is one
of growth from
nothingness to being, by attempting first to understand that one's life situation is ambiguous; second, by opening oneself up to the creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may
come; and third, by acting upon its discovery.
Nothingness is predicted by simple mathematics and the beginning
of the universe
came from absolutely nothing, like a proton popping into existence.
During this short time, we don't have the apparatus to fully understand God, but many
of us see the fallacy
of believing in things like the «big bang» theory where ordered things
come from
nothingness.
If God were to «let go»
of creation, it would back into the
nothingness from which it
came.
If indeed we can have within us the evolutionary steps starting with cosmic creation — from
nothingness into everything that IS, to open up to the part
of our hearts and minds that experience this is to reestablish our connection with the oneness from which we
came.
Profoundly established in the centre
of its own
nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that
comes from below; and since it no longer desires anything, what
comes from above can not depress it; for its desires alone are the causes
of its woes.»
Against that experience
of nothingness, known in ancient times as in modern, Christ bids us
come to God the Father.
It believes the fact
of coming into existence, and has thus succeeded in over -
coming within itself the uncertainty that corresponds to the
nothingness of the antecedent non-being; it believes the «thus»
of what has
come into existence, and has consequently succeeded in annulling within itself the possible «how.»
According to Luria, the world
came into being when God created it ex nihilo, out
of nothingness.
I reject hope in the sense that I believe that out
of Nothingness we have
come and to
Nothingness we will return.
That is why I saw Captain Ahab's «Promised Land» as return to the
nothingness out
of which he had
come.
DFS challenged us to
come up with a creative sofa den, so this weekend we took the opportunity to bed in and hunker down and kick - start our week
of nothingness with a Halloween - inspired tent affair.
There's one generously devious note with Roy, who screws over an infirmed friend out
of desperation and perhaps spite, but that revelation
comes toward the end
of the picture, leaving the rest
of the film to linger on
nothingness.
Weingarten's tales
of nothingness are a tactic she employs with her own members, but you would think five reporters would be able to twist her arm until they
came up with some news — even if they are yoga arms.
Taking Highway 270 down the coast gives you an unparalleled view
of the blue Pacific, suddenly taking your breath away as the entire Waimea Valley
comes into sight below, from dormant Mauna Kea to the vast black
nothingness of lava rolling for miles right into the sea, frozen in place from Hualalai's last big blow in 1801.
The name Namibia
comes from the Nama word meaning «vast place
of nothingness».
I'm just hoping that this blue sky art weather continues through the year to let me get my credit card balance down and prepare for the next onslaught
of nothingness that's bound to
come.
The statue enacts a dialogue that many people feel internally, between a primal fear that everything could
come crashing down, and an exhilarating sense that we are, somehow, managing to keep it suspended in the ether
of nothingness.
In my experience as a student
of spirituality, a musician and a psychotherapist I have been shown that the most fruitful and creative times for individuals
come after a period
of nothingness, void - ness, or emptiness that is completely embraced by that person (or group).